USN-5723-1

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    USN-5723-1

    Published: 14 Nov 2022Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: vim vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when searching specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-1674) It was discovered that there existed a NULL pointer dereference in Vim. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-1725) It was discovered that there existed a buffer over-read in Vim when searching specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2124) It was discovered that there existed a heap buffer overflow in Vim when auto-indenting lisp. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2125) It was discovered that there existed an out of bounds read in Vim when performing spelling suggestions. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2126) It was discovered that Vim accessed invalid memory when executing specially crafted command line expressions. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2175) It was discovered that there existed an out-of-bounds read in Vim when auto-indenting lisp. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2183) It was discovered that Vim accessed invalid memory when terminal size changed. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2206) It was discovered that there existed a stack buffer overflow in Vim's spelldump. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2304)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: vim

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/vim?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm13

    Affected versions

    2:7.4.712-2ubuntu4
    2:7.4.826-1ubuntu1
    2:7.4.826-1ubuntu2
    2:7.4.826-1ubuntu3
    2:7.4.963-1ubuntu1
    2:7.4.963-1ubuntu4
    2:7.4.963-1ubuntu5
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.1
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.3
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.4
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm2
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm3
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm4
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm5
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm6
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm7
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm8
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm10
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11
    2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm12

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    USN-5723-1 | CVE-DB